Chris Crellin @ccrellin.bsky.social · 12/06/20261) Using Google Trends data from 2004 to 2022, we identify the highest spikes in national “climate attention” and correlate these moments with relevant events that may have driven these upticks. 100
Chris Crellin @ccrellin.bsky.social · 12/06/20262) We find that advocacy events, particularly climate protests (eg. Friday’s for the Future), have the most significant and longest-lasting effect on climate attention. 100
Chris Crellin @ccrellin.bsky.social · 12/06/20263) Political events, namely domestic elections, generate a short-lived up-tick in attention, but UNFCCC negotiations do not. 100
